Our Mission

CEO Resources strives to help business leaders achieve their goals, which in turn helps the broader community thrive.

What are the reasons for our success? We develop real relationships with our clients and candidates.

Our Credo:

• Be strategic and a partner;
• Be creative in approaching every search engagement as unique and critical;
• Be passionate and honest advocates;
• Be aggressive in reaching out to a diverse pool of candidates;
• Be prepared to suggest alternative candidates if the traditional pool runs dry;
• Be proactive in communicating results, initiating new plans and overcoming hurdles;
• Be vigilant when reference checking candidates; presenting both strengths and vulnerabilities;
• Be constructively impatient assuring engagements are completed on time;
• Be client-focus not driven by fees;
• Be honest ....

We're proud to play our part as a boutique executive search firm, able to respond to specific leadership challenges with customized hiring solutions and a commitment to long-term collaboration.

Our History

Our founder and president, R. Linda Resnick, pioneered executive search in the mid-Atlantic region's growing high-technology sector. As large companies downsized in the late 1980's, Linda realized that the future would belong to innovative, smaller organizations. And she realized that such companies constituted an underserved market segment.

With funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a seed-stage venture fund, Linda created an executive hiring program at the University City Science Center , the nation's first urban business incubator. An entrepreneur among entrepreneurs, she broadened her practice to serve high-tech, biotech and other innovative organizations.

In doing so, Linda established CEO Resources, Inc. as a spin-off of her initial effort. She has since built a company, a loyal client base and a national reputation.

Our Small Company Advantage

The advantage of a large search firm vs. a smaller firm is overblown. A large executive search firm is not always an advantage in executive search, since it is the search consultant that really matters. What matters is that your consultants knows your field and connects with you. Do not be snowed by claims of large databases and big teams of consultants.

The real scoop is that a firm like CEO Resources takes on fewer clients and has fewer conflicts of interests which results in our clients receiving:

• More attention
• More importance
• More personalized service
• Quicker completion rate
• Possibly a better candidate fit